Re: Informix vs. Sybase vs. Oracle vs. (gasp) MS SQL Server

In article <3356AA08.1ABC_at_strengur.is>, Sveinn Sveinsson <svenni_at_strengur.is> writes:
> Pablo Sanchez wrote:
> >
> > In article <0v8awLAcPRVzEwpS_at_smooth1.demon.co.uk>, David Williams <djw_at_smooth1.demon.co.uk> writes:
> > > >I can do a *moderate* comparison between Informix and Sybase (32 bit
> > > >port):
> > > >
> > > >Sybase 11.0.X Informix 7.22
> > > >------------- -------------
> > > >o ~2 gig max for data cache o 1 gig max for data cache
> > > >
> > > > Drawback Informix. With a smaller data cache there's less data you
> > > > can cache in memory.
> > >
>
> Primarily you would use this amount of memory for data warehouses

  ^^^^^^^^^ I think you'll find OLTP environments that will use this

>
> On a HP9000/K400 with four CPUs and data striped across several
> disks I have seen the overall I/O throughput measured by iostat
> during a sequential scan exceed 24MB/sek, which I wouldn't call
> a bottleneck.
>

Are we talking online or XPS? 24MB/sec is okay... I mean, it's not lumbering but it's not that impressive.

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